Writing Across the Curriculum
The Bill of Rights: Striking the Balance Common Book Discussion Groups on When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Bedford Campus: Monday, September 22nd, 12:30-1:45 pm, Room CC-217 Lowell Campus: Tuesday, September 23rd, 1:30-3:00 pm, Room LF-222 Weekly Creative Writing Hours Bedford Campus: Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00, Writing Center, Room AR-201 (starting 9/25) Faculty workshop: You assigned writing, but you didn’t expect this! How to respond to overly personal, disturbing, or emotionally provocative writing This faculty workshop will address instructors’ concerns and questions about disturbing student writing, providing strategies for responding to student writers across the disciplines. (Signing up on the MCC / LENS Professional Development Calendar Webpage ahead of time would be helpful for our planning, but you can also just Sus Ito was a Lieutenant during World War II in the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American self-sufficient unit who fought with uncommon distinction in Italy, France, and Germany that became the most highly decorated military unit in the history of the United States Armed Forces. Sus Ito and the 442nd helped liberate prisoners in Dachau and was also part of the dramatic rescue of the “Lost Battalion of WWII,” when a battalion of the Texas 36th Division was cut off in the mountains of Germany for 9 days surrounded by German forces. The 442nd fought a grinding battle inch by inch up the mountains to reach the "Lost Battalion." They did so at a terrible price, suffering many more casualties in the relief effort than they saved. All this while Sus’s family, and the family of others in the 442nd unit, were locked behind barbed wire in internment camps in the desert. Sus Ito went on to become a famous cellular biologist, researcher, and Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Harvard Medical School, where he is now Professor Emeritus. (Further information and streaming videos of Dr. Sus Ito at http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/1998/Mar6_1998/complete.html#PROFILE, www.goforbroke.org/mot/522.htm & www.goforbroke.org/mot/099-ito_sus.htm ) Margie Yamamoto’s family lived on Terminal Island in Los Angeles County, California. The island was home to hundreds of first and second-generation Japanese-Americans prior to World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Terminal Island became the first place where the U.S. Government decided to evacuate Japanese-Americans; all of the adult males on Terminal Island were incarcerated by the FBI and the rest of the inhabitants were forced to evacuate their homes and leave the island within 48 hours. The government then demolished every home on the island. As a young child, Margie lived with her family in a Japanese-American internment camp. Her family’s story is similar to what happened to the fictional family in Julie Otsuka’s novel, When the Emperor Was Divine (the MCC Common Book). Retired now after many years working at WGBH, Boston’s public television station, Ms. Yamamoto is Co-Chair of the New England Chapter of the Japanese-American Citizens League. Dr. Ito and Ms. Yamamoto will talk about their personal experiences as Japanese-Americans, and the experiences of their families, during World War II. ( event flier)
Jointly sponsored by WAC, the Humanities Division, and the One World Series. Lowell Campus: Monday, October 20th, 12:30–1:45 pm, Federal Building – Assembly Room Faculty Workshop: Plagiarism and Safe Assign --Your Student Plagiarized! What do you do? What can you do? Slam Your Vote: Poetry & Fiction Reading
Matter of Fact, MCC's improvisational theatre troupe, presents related to the MCC Common Book When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Faculty members interested in bringing their classes can reserve seats in advance by contacting Tom Laughlin at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu Jointly sponsored by WAC & Matter of Fact Players. (For poster) How to Work It (Publishing Workshop) Creative Writing Activities at MCC For additional Creative Writing Activities at MCC, go to the following: As part of WAC activities, each year, a Common Book is recommended for the whole college, selected for literary quality and relevance to many subject areas. Faculty can choose to assign the book to be read independently or teach appropriate elements within a given discipline. For further information about WAC and our activities, please contact Tom Laughlin at ext. 3839 or laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu
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